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from the example of the unplanned speech that the sentence was not finished yet. The student seemed to have a difficulty to finish
her utterance.
g. Analysis on the Sentence Patterns of Planned and Unplanned Speeches with seven T-units
There were six sentences with seven T-units in the planned speech and two sentences in the unplanned speech. Below are two
examples:
a. Mat...material to teach the teacher and the capability of the teacher to teach the students and also eee
if the school is located near
not in town, so the source that can...that the teacher can
get to teach to teach the students is eee
not not enough, so
the mater material that the students get is eee
limited eee and
I think, the government say that this exam was held because of eee
to increase the quality of the students, but in my opinion,
as...as a students who has passed this eee exam eee
this paused exam
this examination didn t doesn t reach the
purpose of the government. Planned Speech
b. You know why of course why I yes and after that I
hihi I
I continue it in bathroom and after that, yah
ya I just use my wet
wet underwear and I paused eee
I I go to
the class again and I ll also continue the eee
subject yes, my
school because it is just a break so after that I have eee yes
I felt
I continue my school again paused for the my subject eee
but mmm I felt very fortune why, because my
my skirt was not
was not wet, yes it s still dry and yah
at least it help me to
to..yah what to
keep my secret hehe
from the
other class students. Unplanned Speech
A sentence with seven T-units is a sentence which has six
coordinators, such as and, so, but, and or. That is why the two examples above were put in this category sentences with seven T-
units, because both of them had six coordinators but, so, and. The sentence pattern used by the students in the planned
speech with seven T-units was S V coord. S V Subject + Verb
+ coordinator + Subject + Verb . Meanwhile, there was no
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consistent sentence pattern that tended to be used by the students in the unplanned speech with seven T-units. Similar to the previous
sentence patterns with several T-units, the sentence patterns in the unplanned speaking were completed by the presence of
subordinators, which shows that the students were able to use complex sentences in the unplanned speaking.
Furthermore, it could also be concluded that there were more sentences in the planned speaking with seven T-units had more
sentences than the sentences in the unplanned speech. It meant that the higher the T-units, the more sentences that were produced
in the planned speaking and it also meant that the students were able to make the more complex sentences in the planned speaking,
which needed a preparation before the speech.
h. Analysis on the Sentence Patterns of Planned and Unplanned Speeches with eight T-units
